editorNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94Trey Graham edits and produces arts and entertainment content for NPR's Digital Media division, where among other things he's helped launch the Monkey See pop-culture blog and NPR's expanded Web-only movies coverage. He also helps manage the Web presence for Fresh Air from WHYY.Outside NPR, Graham has been a lead theater critic at the Washington City Paper, D.C.'s alternative weekly newspaper, since 1995, which means he's seen a good deal of superb theater and a great deal of schlock. He's still stage-struck enough to believe that the former makes up for the latter.Graham began his career as a writer and editor at The Washington Blade; his subsequent tenure at USA Today included a stint as the newspaper's music and theater editor. A past fellow at both the O'Neill Critics Institute and the NEA Arts Journalism Institute in Theater and Musical Theater, Graham won the George Jean Nathan Award for distinguished drama criticism in December 2004.Graham is also a regular panelist on AroundNPR Digital Services RSS Generator 0.94Trey GrahamThu, 08 Dec 2016 22:35:00 +0000Trey Grahamhttp://nwpr.org
Trey GrahamLet us stipulate at the outset that at 57 Stephen Fry is a world-class wit, unquestionably a learned fellow and surely a decent one — because really, anyone of whom Emma Thompson is that fond can't be entirely irredeemable, can he? That said, the 36-year-old Stephen Fry who inhabits the infuriating latter stretch of More Fool Me is a world-class git. Thank God he's rehabilitated himself since.Now that the shudders have subsided, return with me to the Fry so many admire — star of Peter's Friends and Wilde, conjoined comic genius (with best friend Hugh Laurie) famed for Jeeves and Wooster among much else, king of the voice-over and meister of Twitter, jovial host of the BBC's brainy, hiccup-inducing quiz game QI and self-lacerating chronicler of his life as a bipolar funnyman.This Stephen Fry is a man I very much wanted to know better, so I more or less threw myself at the chance to have a look at this latest volume — the third! — of his memoirs. More fool me; should've started with Moab'More Fool' Fry: Comedian's New Memoir Misses The Markhttp://nwpr.org/post/more-fool-fry-comedians-new-memoir-misses-mark
64386 as http://nwpr.orgSat, 13 Jun 2015 11:03:00 +0000'More Fool' Fry: Comedian's New Memoir Misses The MarkTrey GrahamSenators beelining for roll call at the U.S. Capitol, protesters brandishing signs on the Supreme Court sidewalk, guides mama-ducking tourists past the Beaux-Arts splendor of the Library of Congress — they don't always stop to note the elegant Art Deco low-rise tucked in alongside those showier landmarks. Andrea Mays thinks they ought to — and in The Millionaire and the Bard, a brisk chronicle of how William Shakespeare almost vanished into obscurity and how one obsessive American created the playwright's finest modern shrine, she makes a snappy, enjoyable case for why."The millionaire" is Henry Clay Folger, though he wasn't always wealthy. "The bard" is that too-easy shorthand for Shakespeare as Literary God, though he was nothing so grandly poetic during his lifetime. As Mays details in a confident précis of both Shakespeare's career and the scramble to get his plays into print for posterity, he was an artist-entrepreneur who kept busy writing and performing, helping run a theater'Millionaire' Tracks One Man's Fruitful Obsession With The Bard Of Avonhttp://nwpr.org/post/millionaire-tracks-one-mans-fruitful-obsession-bard-avon
63821 as http://nwpr.orgThu, 14 May 2015 16:47:00 +0000'Millionaire' Tracks One Man's Fruitful Obsession With The Bard Of AvonTrey GrahamOnce upon a time, it was MySpace. (Huh. Turns out you can still link to it.) Then Facebook happened. And Twitter. And beyond those two dominant social-media platforms, there are a host of other, newer options for staying in touch and letting the digital universe get a look at your life. And for certain kinds of sharing, some of those other options make more sense to tech-savvy teens than the Big Two do.On today's All Things Considered, NPR's Sami Yenigun talks to a roomful of teenagers to see who uses which for what these days. (The answer, like most involving tech or teens, is subject to change like the weather.)Some takeaways:Facebook is for finding old friends, and maybe for arranging parties. (Unless they're the kind of parties you don't want the police knowing about. "Oftentimes, parties that are all over social media get busted by the cops really easily," one 17-year-old tells Sami.)Twitter is more for personal expression. "People be in their feelings on Twitter — they vent,"Teens Find The Right Tools For Their Social-Media Jobshttp://nwpr.org/post/teens-find-right-tools-their-social-media-jobs
29503 as http://nwpr.orgMon, 17 Jun 2013 21:26:00 +0000Teens Find The Right Tools For Their Social-Media JobsTrey GrahamHere's the thing about the Tony Awards: Sometimes you know what's going to clean up when the nominations are announced. (Think last year, and The Book of Mormon.)And sometimes it's hard to get excited about the shows that get tapped — remember when Sunset Boulevard's only competition for Best Musical was the jukebox show Smokey Joe's Cafe?Not this year: There's a real race. The bittersweet Irish romance Once — an absurdly appealing stage adaptation of the 2006 indie film — leads the pack with 11 nods.But it's got competition from a big-name composer-lyricist team: George and Ira Gershwin's Nice Work If You Can Get It — a new show assembled from their back catalog — and a heavily reworked version of their Porgy and Bess both pulled down 10 nominations.Who's not happy? The team behind Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, which earned just two nominations, for costume and set design.Nobody really expected the Spidermusical to get much attention, though. It's a bigger surprise that BernadetteTony Awards Take Note Of A Little Musical That Emphatically Couldhttp://nwpr.org/post/tony-awards-take-note-little-musical-emphatically-could
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